Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-23

Miles
ano California r. R--...,,'..7. 1884,
Central Pacific Il. X. go. ...-. 1850 &c
Northern Hallway 90. go. ...... 1888
San Pablo and Tulare K R.......... 46 81
Berkeley Branch II. R.,............. 3.s4
California Pacific K. r 1855. -.. 1914
stockton and Copperopolis r r 40 W
Amador Branch......... ...... % 20
San Joaquin Valley aud Yosemite 81 20
Southt IN Pacific of California;. 5S7 26
Southern Pacific of Arizona. ..--... 3SSA
southern Pacific of New Mexico. III o6
Galveston, Harrisburg & StnAptonio $50 ~
Texas aud New Orleans R.. l04l6
Louisiana Western r. X. ............ ll203
Morgan's, Louisiana and Texas K K. 2S350
Sabine and East Texas K. R -. 1o3 81
N. ", Texas and Mexican X. R.. 90 90
Gull, Western exas and Pacific RR. 600
Los Angeles and Santa Ana .,... 1880
Los Angeles and Independence R.R l6.S3
Southern Pacific OF California tNot
vet placed In divisiOn) ......... 26S. II
Mexican Central Rail way .......... l22400|
New Orleans to New 1orK ...... .... 1886 90
steamer lines ..... .............. e. 4,205 90
Total Miles s....................l2 L, 444 OF
Over this vast mileage, embracing
about forty different lines, reports come
ia to the office of the Southern Pacific
Company, on the corner of Fourth and
Townsend streets in San Francisco.
Such an extent of railways under one
management is not equaled or hardly
approached. The amount OF business
transacted on these forty lines of travel
is simply enormous. A click of the
telegraph from the managers Office in
San Francisco will start hundred trains
in motion in an hour. From sixty to
seventy-fve trains of overland passen.
gers are daily crossing the continent
from the Southern Pacific Company,
besides freight trains without numera-
tion. In addition to this array of
business carried on by thousands of
employees, the transportation of millions
of passengers and millions of tons Of
freight, the company have six Thousand
men at work building new lines of road
in this State and in extending side tracks
to accommodate the increase of busi-
ness. Every branch of business is clss-
sified and works like the machinery of
clock. Every bridge and culvert is
numbered end duplicate timbers are
ready to remake or repair at moments
notice. A class of artzans is always
erecting depots for freight or passengers,
while another class is painting railway
buildings during all the year and an
other is examining bridges and tunnels
continually. The hand car of the
bridge Inspector must go in all kinds of
weather, and in q short time its mileage
would reach round the earth.
The manufacture of locomotives and
cars for this company never ceases. 1t
has already the largest number and the
la-ges. siz d locomotives of any railroad
company in the world, and they have
conquered every leading mountain chain
in the State. Not content with con-
aueriug the lofty Sierra Nevada, Sierra
Madre and Siskiyou the locomotives are
opening a grand highway through the
Coast Range from Les Angeles to San
Nrancisco. The line going north will
reach Carpinteria next week and open
to admiring travellers that lovely spot:
"where leaf never dies in the still bloom
ing bowers,
And the bee baDquets on through whole
year Of flowers.
Santa Barbara, the eyer beautiful,
will be reached few days later, and
then about seventy.fve miles more will
remain To be constructed to connect the
south and the north bound lines of the
great Coast Line Branch of the s. P.
Company.
GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY.
The general officers Of the corporation
having charge of its leading features and
its financial affairs are: Hon. Leland
Stanford, President, San Francisco. G.
p. Huntington, Vice-President, New
York. Charles Crocker, I'd Vice Presi-
dent, San Francisco. G. f. Crocker,
Sd President, San Francisco.
Stephen t. Gage, assistant to Presi-
dent, San Francisco. X. II. Miller,
Jr., Secretary and Controller, San
Francisco. Timothy Hopkins, Treas
urer, San Francisco. G. l.. Lansing,
Assistant Controller, San Francisco. N. |
T. Smith, Assistant Treasurer, San
Francisco. The business of the Company !
is divided into the Pacific System, that
embraces all of its lines west of Ogden
and El Paso and the Atlantic System
that embraces all east Of FL Paso. ]